Civil liberties Quote by Charles A. Reich

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

— E. P. Thompson

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and…

— Bob Barr

The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack…

— John Howard

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

— Anonymous

The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first…

— Aaron Rodgers

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with…

— James McGreevey

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law

— Michael Foot

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American…

— Alan K. Simpson

“Americans now considered the danger of surveillance of greater concern than the danger of terrorism: Overall, 47% say their greater concern about government anti-terrorism…

— Glenn Greenwald

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

— Joe Biden

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

— Marya Mannes